Outtakes & Demo tracks

Album release

Bedtime Stories had already proven that Madonna had calmed down a bit after the raunchy Erotica period. On November 7, 1995 she took it a step further and used her new-found calmness to release a collection of her best ballads. "... So without a lot of fanfare, without any distractions, I present to you this collection of ballads. Some are old, some are new. All of them are from my heart." Fans that love the controversial Madonna probably cringed while reading this. But it's a fact that Madonna made some great ballads.

The most interesting on the compilation album were of course the three new songs. Madonna collaborated with producer Nellee Hooper and Massive Attack for I Want You. This cover of the Marvin Gaye classic was initially intended to be released. Instead WBR opted for You'll See, a great song which became a fairly successful single, especially after the poor chart results of Bedtime Story and Human Nature. And finally, One More Chance was another new track, beautiful but often forgotten, that got a limited single release. Those last two tracks were produced by David Foster.

The Japanese version, of the album contained La Isla Bonita as bonus track, while the 15th track on the Mexican version was Veras, the Spanish version of You'll See.

Sales & Charts

In the album charts, Something To Remember reached #1 (Australia), #2 (Germany), #3 (France, UK), #4 (Canada), and #6 (US). In October 2000 it was last certified triple Platinum for shipments of 3 million US copies. Worldwide it sold about 8 million copies.